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Tangent | Les Nouvelles Securities Fraudsters’ Edition: This Morning, Kanye West Apparently Emulates Trump/Musk Sh!t-Coin-Mal-Enomics. Ugh.

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This is getting to be a repetitive — and thus… boring — crypto-related con.

This morning, we are learning that Kanye West, a deeply troubled and misogynist human being… has apparently authorized a sh!t coin, in his name / image / and likeness. Y A W N.

It is actually a complete copy of the $Trump coin, and the $mellania coin. And so like those coins, it is just a form of (at the moment, arguably) legalized securities fraud.

Time will tell whether the SEC has been completely captured by MAGA-world, or whether it will step up, and start bringing enforcement actions.

We shall see. But in the meantime, lots of stupid moms and pops… Are losing their life savings.

Here’s the latest:

…YZY’s structure was first revealed by CoinDesk in February, which reported that 70% of supply would go directly to Ye personally, with 10% for liquidity and 20% for public sale.

At the time, insiders said Ye had initially demanded an 80% stake — the same allocation structure tied to Donald Trump’s TRUMP token — before being negotiated down. The project has also carried heavy baggage from the start. Ye had previously declared that “coins prey on the fans with hype” before backtracking and approving YZY.

Sources told CoinDesk the token was meant to mimic TRUMP’s success, even as Argentina was roiled by a similar scandal when President Javier Milei’s endorsed LIBRA coin collapsed as a pump-and-dump.

Critics flagged then — and now — that such insider-heavy distributions tilt risk squarely toward retail buyers, especially when paired with a single-sided liquidity pool….

What a disgusting time… to be an observer of the (nearly consequence-free) abuse of the deepest and best capital markets on the planet. Damn.

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The Willful Disdain For All Court Orders Here Continues: Kristi Noem Is In [VERY!] High Dungeon, This Evening (As To Abrego-Garcia). Do Read. YAWN. It. Won’t. Matter.

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We have our insouciant answer from Team Noem / Tangerine 2.0: Mr. Abrego Garcia will be released very shortly in Nashville.

He will promptly fly to Maryland — and hopefully he will be in a “safe house”. Hopefully, Noem doesn’t think she’s the Stazi. We shall see. Here’s the awfully intemperate Noem filing just now, in Music City — and a bit of it:

…The United States of America, by and through Robert E. McGuire, Acting United States Attorney, and makes the following response to the Defendant’s Motion to Amend Release Conditions (DE # 106). The United States has steadfastly objected to the Defendant’s release from custody citing his danger to the community and the risk of flight. By making the following response, the United States, to be clear, is not now abandoning that position.

The United States is aware that the Court ordered the defense to respond on behalf of the Government regarding the Government’s position if the Government did not oppose and only ordered the Government to respond if there was opposition to the Defendant’s Motion. However, undersigned counsel believed it was important to file the Government’s position on the record even though the Government is not opposing the Defendant’s Motion to Amend. Undersigned counsel has conferred with the defense and with Pre-trial services as ordered and hopes that the Court will accept this filing in lieu of the defense filing [Ed. Note: Geez! — the hubris of these Noemites!] since it accomplishes the same end: to alert the Court that the Government does not oppose the Motion….

…[S]hould the Defendant be released the United States submits that it has no objection to allowing the Defendant to have 48 hours to travel to Baltimore, Maryland once he is released from U.S. Marshals Custody. The United States understands that, pursuant to this Court’s prior ruling, that the Defendant will be placed on an electronic monitoring device before he is discharged from the facility where he is housed (and, thus, prior to his travel to Maryland) and has confirmed that Pre-trial Service and the U.S. Marshals Service are prepared to effectuate that part of the Court’s order. Therefore, the United States does not oppose the Defendant having 48 hours to travel to Maryland….

Similarly, the United States does not oppose, and would not oppose, the Defendant having access to his attorneys to prepare for trial should he be taken into immigration custody by the Department of Homeland Security at a future point. The United States has an obvious and significant interest in providing the Defendant sufficient access to counsel in order to secure a fair trial for both parties in this case. However, the United States would note that, should the Defendant be removed from the United States to another country via deportation [Ed. Note: what crazy manner of… a lawless pile of lies, might such an operation entail?!], the United States would no longer be in a position to facilitate the Defendant’s access to his attorneys at that point….

[That last bit of insouciance, in the final paragraph, has been counter-manded by no fewer than three courts. One of them a US Court of Appeals — and at least by implication, has been counter-manded by the Supremes, themselves in early April of 2025.] Damn. What an evil pack of miscreants. Out.

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“There Can Be No Freeze… On Obligated Charitable Funds”: DC Circuit Ct. of Appeals, Today.

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So, the trial court has set a status hearing for next Monday, to hear what concrete steps Team Tangerine 2.0 is taking to comply with the appellate order, and the trial court’s injunction — against denying already obligated funds (and already appropriated by Congress, per the black letter lawful scheme) to recipiencts like the National Council of Charities. [Just one of my prior backgrounders, on this case, No. 25-cv-402, USDC, Dist. of Columbia, here.]

We will, as ever cover this too, here. [That is so — at least until we go off grid, for ten days, on an island on upper Lake Champlain — starting this weekend.] Do watch the skies — for some Bat Signals, friends [in the form of tiny text updates in comments to each post, that is(!)]. Here’s the full-text order — from the ever capable USDC Judge Amir Ali, in DC, just entered:

…MINUTE ORDER.

The Court will hold a status conference on August 25, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 19.

[Tangerine 2.0/DOGE] Defendants are reminded, consistent with the en banc D.C. Circuit’s order this morning, that “the preliminary injunction that requires the government to obligate the appropriated funds remains in effect.“ Order, Glob. Health Council v. Trump, No. 25-5097 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 20, 2025).

Defendants accordingly remain under the obligation to take steps to comply with the preliminary injunction absent further order of the Circuit or this Court. Defendants have previously represented it remains feasible to comply with the requirement to obligate the appropriated funds and that they have developed a plan to do so.

Defendants should be prepared to discuss at the hearing what steps they have taken and need to take to ensure that compliance remains feasible.

Signed by Judge Amir H. Ali on 8/20/2025….

Onward — getting excited! It is all coming together… grin!

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Preparing For Abrego-Garcia’s Consensual Release, In Nashville…

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Both sides have significant legal obligations here.

And it would not shock me to see Noem directly violate all the prior federal court orders (in Nashville and Maryland and the US Supreme Court!), and try to re-arrest him — in a “more friendly” (to her) jurisdiction. We shall see — but here’s where things stand, on this overnight motion, from Abrego Garcia’s excellent legal team:

…ORDER as to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia:

On 8/19/2025, the defendant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (“Abrego”) filed a motion to modify conditions of release and issue release order. (Docket No. [106].)

If neither the government nor Pretrial Services opposes the requested relief, Abrego must, by 5:00 p.m. (CDT) on 8/20/2025, file a notice of no opposition.

Otherwise, the government must, by no later than noon on 8/21/2025, file any response in opposition to any aspect of Abrego’s motion.

If the government opposes any relief requested by Abrego, a hearing will be held on 8/25/2025 at 10:30 AM.

The U.S. Marshal is directed to transport Abrego for the scheduled hearing.

The stay of issuance of the release order, see Docket No. [97], shall remain in effect pending a ruling on Abrego’s motion to modify conditions of release.

Signed by Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes on 8/20/2025….

Now you know. We await day’s end, to see which of the above shoes… fall, next. Onward, resolutely. Will the ICE-idiots try to kidnap him again? We shall see.

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Here In The 21st Century, It Is Unusual To Find… We’ve “Missed” A Moon, Among Our Eight Near Neighbors… But It Has Happened, At Uranus: JWST

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As I say, with post-Millennium ultra high pixel Chilean monster optical scopes, and vast dish network arrayed radio telescopes — and even prior razor sharp space ‘scopes… it is surprising that even a tiny moon was… missed.

But just a few months ago, in data downloaded on February 2, 2025 — the JWST team saw a tiny little moon — never noticed before, orbiting one of our most distant gas giant outer planets. That makes… 29, out there. Here’s the scoop:

…Using NASA’s [JWST], a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29….

“This object was spotted in a series of 10 40-minute long-exposure images captured by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam),” said Maryame El Moutamid, a lead scientist in SwRI’s Solar System Science and Exploration Division based in Boulder, Colorado.

“It’s a small moon but a significant discovery, which is something that even NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft didn’t see during its flyby nearly 40 years ago….”

I love these sorts of “undiscovered country” space stories. And we will await its more poetic, and formal naming. [Tradition dictates that it be a name from Alexander Pope’s writings, or those of Will Shakespeare.] So, we await that, with a grin — out in Boulder. Woot!

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In Nashville, The Motion To Completely Void Mr. Abrego Garcia’s Specious Prosecution By Noem. Et Al., Has Been Docketed: Selective Bad Faith Prosecution.

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As the readers well-know, I’ve spent several days in the past three months, traveling to and from the federal courtrooms in Music City, closely tracking this case, and talking at length with counsel for Mr. Garcia, as well as a few very fair minded Democratic State Reps., there.

It is time. It is time for the able USDC Judge Crenshaw in Nashville to rule that this all is “fruit of a poisonous tree“. That this whole matter was cooked up, as a face saving gambit, when the Noemites realized they had zero lawful basis to dump him in an El Salvadoran meat-grinder / hell-hole — for three months. So do read all 35 pages — but in a just world, it ought to prevail, later this Fall;

…On March 24, Mr. Abrego challenged his unlawful removal to El Salvador, filing a lawsuit against various government officials in the District of Maryland, alleging that his removal violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(A), the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act. (D. Md. Dkt. 1 ¶¶ 72-95). Mr. Abrego also sought a temporary restraining order requiring the government to return him to the United States. (D. Md. Dkt. 2). Even though the government confessed, relatively promptly, that its removal of Mr. Abrego was in error, the government did not take steps to fix its mistake. Instead, in response to his lawsuit — and to the substantial publicity it received — the government undertook a wide-ranging and unprecedented retribution campaign against Mr. Abrego. This [Nashville] criminal case is part of that campaign….

Even as some parts of the [federal] government were recognizing that Mr. Abrego’s removal was wrongful, others were beginning to take steps seemingly calculated to deter Mr. Abrego from pursuing his case and calling attention to the government’s errors. On April 1, Vice President J.D. Vance falsely proclaimed that Mr. Abrego “was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here.” [Ed. Note: He’s never been charged as MS-13 (let alone “convicted”), and the traffic stop ended without even a warning or a ticket — and J.D. Vance well knew this. J.D. Vance, the sitting Veep, malignantly lied in public about this man — a wrongly accused human.]

That kicked off the government’s public campaign to get back at Mr. Abrego….

In a word — deplorable. This is all solely a “retributive” sham-indictment. And, J.D. Vance has disqualified himself from ever seeking any future public office. These lies were willful, they were wanton and were calculated to destroy the reputation of an innocent family man, here lawfully (with papers to prove it!) — in Maryland, for many years. Onward.

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Do READ All Of This! This Is How Fascists… Get Rolling — And Consolidate… Power.

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It cannot be repeated often enough: if we do not hang together… under Tangerine’s lawless attempts at fascist rule… we will… hang, separately.

Do go read it all. Damnation.

…Jorge Luis Hernández Viramontes, a U.S. citizen, is the manager of a carwash. He was at work when immigration agents arrived, for the second time that day, in unmarked vehicles and began questioning his employees. When Hernández Viramontes asked for a warrant, he claims an agent responded, “Shut the fuck up.” Even though he provided agents with his California driver’s license, agents arrested Hernández Viramontes and took him to a nearby warehouse for questioning.

Another U.S. citizen, Jason Brian Gavidia, was repairing his car in a tow yard when armed agents, some of whom were masked, arrived. He says he told them that he is a U.S. citizen who was born in Los Angeles, but agents took his state-issued identification card and detained him anyway.

Three other men, all Latino construction workers, were drinking coffee outside of a donut shop as they waited for a ride to a job site when masked men carrying long guns jumped out of cars with tinted windows and no license plates. One of the men tried to leave but was surrounded and arrested before he could. Another ran and was arrested. A third remained where he was standing and was also arrested.

U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order in favor of the challengers on July 11. Frimpong’s order bars immigration agents from stopping someone unless they have reasonable suspicion that the person has violated federal immigration law. The order also prohibits agents from using four factors to determine reasonable suspicion, either alone or in combination: “apparent race or ethnicity”; “[s]peaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent”; “presence at a particular location” – such as a bus stop or car wash; and “the type of work one does.” Frimpong’s order applies only in the Central District of California, a region that includes approximately 20 million people in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. Over 47% of the district’s residents identify as Hispanic or Latino, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit later noted….

All done and feeling great — no need to “sleep any of it off.” But I may just fall silent until later tonight anyway… just take in a bad sci-fi movie… hah!

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Gilead Goes On The Offensive, To Reclaim Its IP In The EU | Remdesivir: Suit Against China’s Military / Medical Arm…

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Power-alley, again: China essentially snuck into the EU patent offices, and got what it thinks is a blocking patent, in the EU at least, on Gilead’s wildly successful Remdesivir.

The EU legal mechanisms at the Commission level provide for a “fast track” in situations like this — for bio-pharmas like Gilead. And the company is taking aggressive advantage of that mechanism. There could be a final outcome by next summer — and by patent law (i.e., glacial) time frames… that is swift, indeed. Here’s the latest on it all:

…The European Patent Office recently granted EP 3 854 403. The patent belongs to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences based in Beijing and protects the use of substituted aminopropionate compounds in the treatment of SARS-Cov-2 infections.

This means it is potentially a threat to the sale of remdesivir. Gilead developed the drug under the brand name Veklury as a broad-spectrum antiviral medication. It was originally intended for the treatment of Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus infections, but since the coronavirus pandemic it has been used primarily as a post-infection treatment for COVID-19….

Revocation actions over pharmaceuticals have had a certain appeal in the industry since the UPC launched. Early on, Astellas sued to invalidate two patents belonging to Healios and the University of Osaka. Sanofi also took action against Amgen’s Praluent patent in the court’s first year. In addition, Pfizer attacked a GSK patent for an RSV vaccine….

We will keep an eye on this one — but it is hard to imagine how the Chinese state-affiliated actors could ever prevail (in the long term) on this, in the EU. Do stay tuned.

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Pre-Scheduled Post: Daiichi Sankyo And Merck… Cranking Out Promising New Cancer Approaches — FDA Breakthrough Designation, For Ifinatamab Deruxtecan.

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Until I get back on-grid later tonight, here’s a story I preloaded — earlier, on Monday. It is good (but immaterial) news for immuno-candidate ifinatamab deruxtecan, a B7-H3 directed antibody-drug conjugate — in certain small cell lung cancers.

The Daiichi Sankyo / Merck relationship (of ~$9.5 billion, and rising) continues to bear immuno-onclological candidate fruit, thus ($$ subs. req.):

…Merck & Co and Daiichi Sankyo have received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the US regulator for ifinatamab deruxtecan, a B7-H3 directed antibody-drug conjugate. The designation applies to adults with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer that has progressed following platinum-based chemotherapy.

The decision was supported by data from the phase II IDeate-Lung01 trial and the phase I/II IDeate-PanTumor01 study.

“This Breakthrough Therapy Designation granted by the FDA to ifinatamab deruxtecan highlights the urgent need for new treatment options for patients with pretreated extensive-stage small cell lung cancer,” said Ken Takeshita, global head of R&D at Daiichi Sankyo. Merck’s chief medical officer Eliav Barr added that the recognition “reinforces our confidence in the promise” of the therapy….

Now you know. Onward, and back in the saddle by morning — if not late night, tonight.

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Off-Grid For A Bit — But Central Nigeria Is Running A Prophylactic Mpox Vax Campaign…

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This is a very smart public health move, by the Nigerian government.

But it has been made much more financially, and logistically challenging with USAID sidelined by Tangerine 2.0.

Here’s the latest:

…The campaign comes after several local government areas in Kaduna State recorded a significant number of Mpox cases, prompting authorities to roll out the intervention across seven high-risk communities.

At the vaccination site, residents lined up to receive their shots, with many expressing relief at the availability of protection against the disease.

However, health officials say they face challenges in raising awareness about the importance of vaccination in local communities.

The vaccine is being administered in a two-dose schedule.This first schedule will run for ten days, while the second round will start in another four weeks….

Onward, resolutely just the same.

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